>>>>>>>> They are playing one of their new songs on the radio here, and it rocks. GNR is back!
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>>>>>>>My g/f will be happy :)
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>>>>>>>I used to be a big fan - can't wait to hear their new stuff.
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>>>>>>It's freakin great. They kept their sound (you can always tell Axel singing, and they kept their guitar playing prevalent, altough it is no Slash), but they sounds like they modernized a bit. I could probably listen to that songs over and over all day and not get sick of it.
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>>>>>I hate it already, and I haven't even heard it. Controversial but American "Rack" sucks the sweat out of a pig's armpit!
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>>>>LOL, I thought you would be the GNR type...
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>>>No, me more reggae, African, techno, ambient, folk, opera, classic, jazz, R&R, C&W, R&B, female vocalists, et al. In fact anything that I hear that I like (except for American Rack - oh, and blues generally - well anything that starts "I woke up this morning ...")
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>>You like country music and not American rock? You don't like Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Aerosmith, ...? You are crazy.
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>What part of "American Rack" don't you understand? :-)
>
>To be fair: "Brit Pop" takes the dribbles out of the mouth from the sucking of Am Rock :-)
>
>Anyway, damn you all! I've got "Sweet Child o' Mine" running round my head now and it's driving me off my cake!


Let me increase your pain for the sin of disrespecting the blues <g> --

I went down to the crossroads, fell down on my knees
I went down to the crossroads, fell down on my knees
Asked the lord above for mercy, save me if you please

I went down to the crossroads, tried to flag a ride
I went down to the crossroads, tried to flag a ride
Nobody seemed to know me, everybody passed me by

I'm going down to Rosedale, take my rider by my side
I'm going down to Rosedale, take my rider by my side
You can still barrelhouse, baby, on the riverside

You can run, you can run, tell my friend-boy Willie Brown
You can run, you can run, tell my friend-boy Willie Brown
And I'm standing at the crossroads, believe I'm sinking down


Written by Robert Johnson and memorably covered by an Englishman who knows a little about guitar blues, Eric Clapton.

Simple words but deep. As usual with the blues, most of it is in the playing and the nakedness of the singing.